Yu Hua

Allan H. Barr

A first work of non-fiction available in English by the James Joyce Foundation Award-winning Chinese author of Brothers is presented through a framework of ten common phrases in the Chinese vernacular to offer insight into the nation's modern economic gaps, cultural transformations and ubiquitous practices of deception.

China in Ten Words

Aile servetini yiyip tükettiği gençlik günlerinde, uzun bir hayatın ona neler sunacağından habersizdir elbette Fugui. 
Yıllar sonra, yaşlı öküzüyle tarlasını sürerken tanıştığı bir yabancıya hayatından söz etmeye başladığında, şımarık bir gencin başına gelenlerden fazlasını sayıp dökecektir bu yüzden: Fugui, kendisiyle birlikte altı insanın hayatını, kaderin sürprizlerini, yaşamın acılarını ve sevinçlerini anlatır. Onun dilinden -daha doğru bir ifadeyle Yu Hua’nın kaleminden- dökülenler, insanlık durumlarına dair epik bir romana dönüşür böylece. Basit bir anlatım, güçlü bir anlatı doğurur: Sabanın toprakta bıraktığı izlere benzer kâğıt üzerinde satırlar. Yaşamın her şeyi kapsaması gibi, Yaşamak da hayatı olduğu gibi kucaklar. Doğumları ve ölümleri, mutsuzlukları ve umutlarıyla...
Yayımlandığında ülkesinde yasaklanmasına rağmen, bir hayat öyküsü okumamış da sanki bir hayat yaşamış olduklarını söyleyen okurlarının her geçen gün artmasıyla bir “modern klasik”e dönüşen Yaşamak’ı Bahar Kılıç, Çince aslından çevirdi.

Yaşamak

When forty-one-year-old Yang Fei dies without money for a burial plot, he must aimlessly roam the afterworld and encounter the souls of people he has lost.

The Seventh Day

Kanini Satan Adam

An award-winning author from China presents 13 tales about the sorrows, joys and constants of today's China, including the story of an awkward youth who uses the perks of his government to court two women and a couple who toils in factories only to learn that their son has been wasting their money.

Stories of the Hidden China

Boy in the Twilight

From the author of Brothers and China in Ten Words: this celebrated contemporary classic of Chinese literature was also adapted for film by Zhang Yimou. This searing novel, originally banned in China but later named one of that nation’s most influential books, portrays one man’s transformation from the spoiled son of a landlord to a kindhearted peasant. After squandering his family’s fortune in gambling dens and brothels, the young, deeply penitent Fugui settles down to do the honest work of a farmer. Forced by the Nationalist Army to leave behind his family, he witnesses the horrors and privations of the Civil War, only to return years later to face a string of hardships brought on by the ravages of the Cultural Revolution. Left with an ox as the companion of his final years, Fugui stands as a model of gritty authenticity, buoyed by his appreciation for life in this narrative of humbling power.

A Novel

To Live

على قيد الحياة

On Sözcükte Cin

From the celebrated author of To Live, one of China's most famous contemporary writers--a stunning collection of stories, selected from the best of his early work, that show his profound influence on a pivotal period in Chinese literature. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, when these stories were written, Yu Hua and a number of other young Chinese writers began to reimagine their national literature in their innovations with form. Departing from conventional realism in favor of a more subjective and daring approach inspired by Kafka, Faulkner, and Borges, these authors reflected the momentous cultural changes sweeping through China. The stories in The April 3rd Incident show Yu Hua masterfully guiding us from one fractured reality to another. "A History of Two People" traces the paths of a man and a woman who dream in parallel throughout their lives. "In Memory of Miss Willow Yang" weaves a spellbinding web of signs and symbols. "As the North Wind Howled" carries a case of mistaken identity to absurd and hilarious conclusions. And the titular story follows an unforgettable narrator determined to unearth a conspiracy against him that may not exist. By turns surreal, thought-provoking, and darkly comic, The April 3rd Incident is an extraordinary record of a singular moment in Chinese fiction.

Stories

The April 3rd Incident

Yang Fei esce di casa una mattina e trova una fitta nebbia mista a una strana neve luminosa: è in ritardo per la sua cremazione. Inizia così il viaggio nell’Aldilà di un uomo vissuto, troppo brevemente, nella Cina del capitalismo socialista e delle sue aberranti contraddizioni. In un’avventura di sette giorni, il protagonista incontrerà persone care smarrite da tempo, imparando nuove cose su di loro e su se stesso. Conoscenti e sconosciuti gli racconteranno poi la propria storia nell’inferno vero, l’Aldiquà: demolizioni forzate, corruzione, tangenti, feti gettati nel fiume come rifiuti, miriadi di poveracci che pullulano in bunker sotterranei come formiche, traffico di organi, consumismo sfrenato... La morte livella le diseguaglianze, svelando l’essenziale, e i cittadini di questa necropoli soave uscita dalla penna di Yu Hua ci insegnano tutta la semplicità dell’amore.

Il settimo giorno

Yedinci Gün

Buku peraih penghargaan yang awalnya dilarang terbit lalu menjadi buku paling berpengaruh di China dekade terakhir ini. Dari seorang anak tuan tanah kaya yang menghabiskan waktu di meja judi dan ranjang pelacur, Fugui kehilangan harta dan orang-orang yang dicintainya. Dia berusaha bertahan hidup di tengah kekejaman perang saudara, absurditas Revolusi Kebudayaan, hingga bencana kelaparan yang melanda China akibat kekeliruan kebijakan Mao. Kisah tragis kehidupan seorang Fugui merangkum kengerian perjalanan sejarah negeri China di tengah ingar-bingar revolusi komunis. To Live adalah karya kontroversial salah satu novelis terbaik China yang sempat dilarang beredar di China, telah meraih berbagai penghargaan sastra internasional, difilmkan, dan telah diterjemahkan ke lebih dari 20 bahasa. Dengan kata-katanya yang sederhana namun bergemuruh dan menggugah, Yu Hua bercerita tentang sebuah China. Yang begitu nyata, tanpa basa-basi.

Hidup (To Live)

Sejak ibu Li Gundul menikah dengan ayah Song Gang, hidup mereka menjadi rumit. Setelah kematian kedua orangtua mereka, Song Gang bersumpah tidak akan pernah menelantarkan adiknya, Li Gundul. Namun, suatu ketika, ikatan persaudaraan mereka bubar karena mereka sama-sama mencintai wanita yang sama. Kisah bernuansa kental komedi tentang masyarakat yang menimbulkan huru-hara dalam era Cina modern karya Yu Hua, novelis terkenal dan kontroversial.

Dua Bersaudara (Brothers)

Victory

Yu Hua’s populist voice and exquisite wit have made him one of the most celebrated and bestselling writers in China. These visceral, flawlessly crafted stories explore the line between cruelty and warmth on which his country is precariously balanced. In the title story, a shopkeeper confronts a child thief and punishes him without mercy. “Victory” shows a young couple shaken by the husband’s infidelity, each scrambling to stake claims to the components of their shared life. Other tales show, by turns, two factory workers who spoil their only son, a gang of townsfolk who bully an innocent orphan, and a spectacular fistfight outside a refinery bathhouse. Taken together, these stories form a snapshot of a nation, lit with the deep feeling and ready humor that characterize its people. A sensation in Asia, Boy in the Twilight affirms Yu Hua’s place at the very forefront of literary fiction.

‫صيف حار وقصص أخرى‬

Chronicle of a Blood Merchant

Internazionale n. 1390

Cronica unui negustor de sânge

A bestseller in China, Brothers is an epic and wildly unhinged black comedy of modern Chinese society running amok. Here is China as we've never seen it before, in a sweeping, Rabelaisian panorama of forty years of rough-and-rumble Chinese history, from the madness of the Cultural Revolution to the equally rabid madness of extreme materialism. Yu Hua, award-winning author of To Live, gives us a surreal tale of two comically mismatched stepbrothers, Baldy Li, a sex-obsessed ne'er-do-well, and the bookish, sensitive Song Gang, who vow that they will always be brothers—a bond they will struggle to maintain over the years as they weather the ups and downs of rivalry in love and making and losing millions in the new China. Both tragic and absurd by turns, Brothers is a fascinating vision of an extraordinary place and time.

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